Re: alarm

On 25 Sep 2002 21:33:14 +0200
Stefan van der Walt <12489468_at_sun.ac.za> wrote:
> I was trying out the version of Madplay in familiar 0.6rc1 that is
> supposed to work with esd.
>
> It seems to be giving problems though:
>
> --
> Can't resolve host name "/dev/dsp"!
> audio: esd_open_sound: No such file or directory
> --
>
> Has anyone else come across this?

No, here it works. Which options did you try?
Something like this is OK:
        madplay --output=esd:/dev/dsp ...

> Is there any way to set an audible alarm under GPE at the moment? (I
> know that was part of the discussion on Sunday evening - just wondered
> if there was a temporary solution in the meantime).

For a temporary solution you could eithe use uuschedule/atd or from GPE
CVS you could use rtcd and gpe-alarm.

> Regards
> Stéfan
CU
  nils faerber

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